Hearty Dice Friends

WE'RE BACK. Your boys - Chris and Grant - are back at it again with the RPG design, or rather, back at it again with a LOT of chat about Sheffield nightlife and some tangential Games Content. In this week's episode: - How Things Are Different In The North To The Way They Are In The South: a fascinating and novel topic of discussion - Vehicle RPGs? Is that a thing? - dare u enter our liminal IKEA hellscape - Deliberately making tea wrong online just to upset people And many more! We love ya. Keep it sleazy, kid. - G+C

Look: here are some reasons. And they double as content. Rest easy, little reader. - G x

Once again we turn to Twitter for some ideas, we even left out some of the truly upsetting ideas! Except for the ones about serial killers and dog wands, that gold stayed in. Biggest of loves, G + C

A brace of sad news items this week kick the show off with a melancholy bang. We look at the potential to exploit others for personal gain with some sort of football game? Well it certainly starts off that way. The hugest of loves, G + C

Look! An episode! So yeah, it's been a weird time and we have been late with episodes. We get it. So Grant and Chris have squashed themselves into a tiny office in the middle of a blazing heatwave in an attempt to bring you, valued listener, some delicious content. On the other hand the room got so dangerously hot that we had to breaks, so enjoy that weird format. G + C xoxoxox

We smoosh together some vampires and investigative crime drama this week. I know we normally try and do tabletop games but this would work so well as video game we went with that instead. Now if we can just get a thick 8ft tall vampire lady to step on us. For the sales numbers you understand. It's viral advertising. XOXO G = C

You've got to wonder: why aren't there more wargames about massive trains trying to kill each other? And if you think the answer is "trains are on fixed tracks which makes a competitive game about them fighting a bit boring" then, buddy, you aren't our core market. Don't know what to tell you.

What if you could use any weapon in a game? Tiny chainsaws launched from repeating tonfas, a bucket full of hand grenades, or and assault rifle that had no barrel but 9 scopes? Sounds like you'd be playing this weeks game which has nothing to do with popular video game series Quake.

We are LIVE from the comfort of our own homes as part of HDF Easter-Con. We streamed this episode on Twitch.tv/gshowitt and made a grim reboot of Winnie The Pooh. Join us for Easter-con! Or don't! I'm not your dad! xoxoxoxo G + C

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We are back once again with the ill behaviour and a structured and focused RPG design session featuring incisive commentary and insider secrets. Hugs and kisses, Grant + Chris [Editor's note:] The bird Grant was trying to remember was a Cassowary, and the game Chris completely forgot was Bagatelle

We're doing a hiatus because neither of us is really in the right place to be funny and engaging and insightful for a full hour on mic right now. We'll be back (baby!) on March 5th with episode 180, so please hang tight until then. The attached audio file is just us saying this for about four minutes and a weird, slowed-down version of the theme tune, so you don't have to listen to it, but you can if you want. See you in a month, much love, - G+C

The four of you have two human skinsuits, two robotic children, an overbearing overlord for a boss, and Henry down the road has just gotten himself a boat. How will this injustice be dealt with? How will you very slowly take over the world one suburban neighbourhood at a time? You're a perfect family, you should be able to figure it out - G+C

This week we forget to make a game and instead make two ways to be able to play the game we didn't design. It's confusing. A technological marvel and a playground toy scaled up. Lots of love - G + C

Merry Christmas! Mr Christmash. Merr Chrzmo. Mondo Coolmas. In this episode: - Malfunctioning cat dicks - Can you do game mechanics with Christmas decorations? No. Do we try? Not really. - Crackers, and how they could be better - Santa Wants You To Get Some Strange - EAT! THAT! TINSEL! Muz crumbo. - G+C

After an awful bus crash on your way to the global sports day summit , you and your classmates (and possibly Bill Clinton and some Civil War generals) must compete against death itself in the egg & spoon race. Also the javelin. And just who caused the crash in the first place? Lots of love G + C

There aren't enough games about Christmas - even fewer about managing the correct amount of festive cheer, lest the Spirit overwhelm you and try to hunt you down until you LEARN. Well: now there's one. Well: now there's the IDEA of one. So maybe that's enough. Merry Early Christmas. - Grant and Chris

What if, right, Lord of the Rings was guitar hero? What if Gandalf summoned dubstep? Who lives under my stairs? Where am i? Some of these questions will be answered in this very podcast! We love you. Like, a lot. - G + C

Welcome to Mars(Venus)! While enjoying the Venusian(Martian)sunsets please remember to fill out your self-assessment forms, do the dishes, eat, socialise correctly, and not succumb to the crushing mundanity of everyday life. In this immersive VR lifestyle sim game Grimes will teach YOU how to exist as an adult in a world hellbent on crushing you under its heel. Huge love, G + C

Drinking: it's fun, but is it fun enough? We engage in a flight of fancy more fantastical than elves, aliens or magic: being able to meet in large groups in enclosed spaces. Can we create a drinking game that a) factors in non-drinkers as players and b)is balanced for our ravaged mid-30's hangover-prone bodies? Definitely the first one. Probably not the second one. Much love, - G+C